Biography

Born: 1973, Jackson, Tennessee.
Lives and works in Memphis, TN.

Christopher Miner is a video artist whose work addresses the impact of his upbringing with regard to religion, race, family, and sexuality. He works in both documentary and performative modes, often blending autobiography with fictional elements to create a persona that is at once genuine and carefully orchestrated. In his search for “transcendence and clarity,” Miner wades through the personal conflicts of everyday life, revealing an inescapable human existence.

Christopher Miner was born in Jackson, MS, in 1973. He received a Masters of Fine Art in photography from Yale University in 2000 and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1996. His work has been the subject of important solo and group exhibitions at galleries and museums throughout the world including Bellwether Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, Vienna; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, the New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York; and the Tate Britain, London.

Exhibitions

News

News

Christopher Miner in TBA Festival Portland OR

The Safest Place

Mitchell-Innes & Nash is pleased to announce Christopher Miner in the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art's annual Time-Based Art Festival. TBA will feature Miner's video "The Safest Place" which charts a lone man rotating endlessly, floating in an undefined space ship-like interior. As he spins, the figure clasps his knees in perpetual fetal-positioned prayer. Lost in a space of contemplation, he becomes a kind of everyman who quietly reaches out to the great beyond. The music, recorded by Miner, is a reinvented southern spiritual whose song becomes incantation: No harm have I done on my knees When you see me on my knees Come here, Jesus, if you please. The searcher takes comfort in this act of petition, though his waiting, like the silence of the answer, is infinite. Opening reception Thursday September 9, 8-10pm THE WORKS at Washington High School 531 SE 14th Ave. Portland OR 97214 Gallery Hours Sept. 10 - Sept. 19 . Every Day, 12 - 6:30 pm Sept. 23 - Oct 17 . Thurs - Fri . 12 - 6:30 pm; Sat - Sun . 12 - 4 pm